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So to speak

"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--

Main Author:	Hayes, Terrance (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : Penguin Books, [2023]
Series:	Penguin poets.
Subjects:	Music > Poetry. Social justice > Poetry. Popular culture > Poetry. Poetry. Odes.

Summary:	"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--
Physical Description:	x, 90 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780143137726 0143137727 9781802063387 1802063382
Author Notes:	Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead , winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other poetry collections are American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin , How to Be Drawn , Wind in a Box , Hip Logic , and Muscular Music , and he is also the author of To Float in the Space Between- A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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